POTUS 2016

Push the button, pull the lever, who's it going to be?

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chrismpw said:
It really chuffs me off that obsessive coverage by our media, of an election that has nothing to do with us, on the other side of the planet, over a year in advance.
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Unfortunately, due to the nature of politics being global these days, it does have something to do with you. Like it or not, who gets elected POTUS will have an effect, either indirect or direct on you.
 

ItsOKImAPilot said:
My career is within the US military and we have specialized training programs that are not replicated in any other country (i.e., test pilot school, advanced weapons school, national defense institute, ect). The knowledge gained is not just transferable within the military but has uses in the civilian world if I choose to leave at the 20-year point.

Other than that my education is from the University of Virginia and Georgetown which are very good schools but obviously not alone in the world when it comes to superior programs.
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Completely off-topic but how difficult is it to get Hoya tickets?
 
Dylan said:
Unfortunately, due to the nature of politics being global these days, it does have something to do with you. Like it or not, who gets elected POTUS will have an effect, either indirect or direct on you.
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I stand my ground over the cultural invasion, in my own way. My pupils still spell "sulphur" correctly. :)
 
chrismpw said:
I stand my ground over the cultural invasion, in my own way. My pupils still spell "sulphur" correctly. :)
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Cultrual shmultural......its a global world these days!

American or British, it seems that most of the up and coming generation now spell words like 'great' and 'you' as 'gr8' and 'u'

Hold onto what you have, because it will soon be gone.
 

Garrick said:
Yeah, arguably it was the most impactful Obamacare implementation in the country. Most of the states that took the Medicaid expansion and made their own exchanges already had decently high rates of insured. The most uninsured people in the country reside in, ironically, states that haven't taken the expansion and don't have a state-run exchange, and they're mostly in the South. Kentucky was one of the few outliers in this.
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I have to jump in here for personal reasons, but readily admit that I haven't read the entire thread. It's entirely possible that this has already been said.

I went to both middle and high school in Kentucky, attended the University of Kentucky, was employed by the Kentucky State Government for 13 years, and was involved in rolling Kynect out - I only left the state less than a year ago. This election is an absolute disaster for the state. The fact that most of the voters don't seem to know it yet is simultaneously the most depressing and unsurprising thing I've ever seen.

The Republicans have done a masterful job of using crap wedge issues (religious and racist stuff, mostly) to convince poor, rural people to vote against their own best interests for decades now. Matt Bevin was carried to office by the votes of the people who benefit most from Obamacare. They have literally voted for themselves to have sh*ttier health care - for a bunch of issues that will never, ever impact their lives. The obvious example is that horrible woman raising hell about the gay marriage bit, but there are others. The worst part is that Bevin is now going to dismantle the best exchange in the US, then yell about how it proves that "Obamacare" was a failure. And people will eat it up as they grow sick and die from preventable diseases.
 
I love this new word POTUS, is it a shortened version of PORTENTOUS. I especially like the new FLOTUS. Who dreams this crap up.....no offence to our American friends but where does it stop.........
 


Clinton uses 9/11 to rebuke criticism of her funding from Wall St.

What an absolute spineless and vacuous waste of space she is.
 
Dylan said:
Cultrual shmultural......its a global world these days!

American or British, it seems that most of the up and coming generation now spell words like 'great' and 'you' as 'gr8' and 'u'

Hold onto what you have, because it will soon be gone.
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There is a Chinese proverb that I find myself more and more frequently using: "nothing of beauty lasts." I will stubbornly hold on to my cultural heritage until the day I die. It's not that I think it's superior to any other, but these differences are what make the planet interesting, not uniformly beige. Furthermore, it is ultimately arrogant to assume that the current generation has things right, whereas the massed tradition of billions of previous human brains must have had it wrong. True, there are improvements, but not to spelling!

Suplhur has been spelled with a 'ph' since the Greeks and the Romans ... and only since 1990 has IUPAC been conned into spelling it with an 'f' by a solitary nation who have a reputation in the English speaking world for poor spelling who, it seems from your post, take spelling cues from its children! It proves the power of salesmanship over substance, which is the other cultural thing I try to resist (with increasing difficulty ... as 'substance' in terms of quality is dropping away practically everywhere).

In a previous post, I was told that I must take an interest in the next President of the United States, because the outcome will affect me. If this is the case, then I demand a vote. If that nation is unwilling to hand us votes, then I would like to request that they keep themselves to themselves, and not presume to impose their culture.
 

chrismpw said:
There is a Chinese proverb that I find myself more and more frequently using: "nothing of beauty lasts." I will stubbornly hold on to my cultural heritage until the day I die. It's not that I think it's superior to any other, but these differences are what make the planet interesting, not uniformly beige. Furthermore, it is ultimately arrogant to assume that the current generation has things right, whereas the massed tradition of billions of previous human brains must have had it wrong. True, there are improvements, but not to spelling!

Suplhur has been spelled with a 'ph' since the Greeks and the Romans ... and only since 1990 has IUPAC been conned into spelling it with an 'f' by a solitary nation who have a reputation in the English speaking world for poor spelling who, it seems from your post, take spelling cues from its children! It proves the power of salesmanship over substance, which is the other cultural thing I try to resist (with increasing difficulty ... as 'substance' in terms of quality is dropping away practically everywhere).

In a previous post, I was told that I must take an interest in the next President of the United States, because the outcome will affect me. If this is the case, then I demand a vote. If that nation is unwilling to hand us votes, then I would like to request that they keep themselves to themselves, and not presume to impose their culture.
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Yeah is right 'kin yanks think they own the 'kin world AND the english language

no representation without something else ending in 'ation'...help here please
 

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